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This enormous speed, many times as fast as a chemical rocket's exhaust, is the secret of the plasma engine's promise. All space engines must shoot something astern to gain their thrust, and as the exhaust speed rises, the engine becomes more efficient. Republic's plasma engine can run for a year on 1 Ib. of nitrogen...
Stack will probably try to double in the 330 and 440, and the quarter-mile race between the gritty Yale captain and Metcalfe should be a hell-raiser. Bobby Mack of Yale, the fastest two-miler in astern history at 8:53.6, should win his event, but Tim Briault of Cambridge and John Boulter of Oxford will threaten...
...Leading all the way, Pennsylvania's unbeaten varsity eight cut its way through Connecticut's choppy Housatonic River to leave Yale 2½ lengths astern, round into top form for its big race this weekend against unbeaten Harvard in the Eastern Sprint championships at Worcester, Mass., a race that should produce the favorite to defend the U.S. crew gold medal in the Olympics this August in Rome...
Steaming at a cautious two knots, d'Iberville crept through the approach to the St. Lambert lock. Just astern came the icebreaker Montcalm, and after her four shoebox-shaped canalboats, veterans of the St. Lawrence's old 14-ft. waterways and sentimental favorites to head the procession of Canadian, American and foreign cargo carriers into the seaway...
...opening race of their climactic series, Mosbacher put Vim across the starting line ahead of Columbia -but to leeward. Shields merely tacked to get free air, and walked away from Vim to finish with the wide lead of 4 min. i sec. Next day, before the gun, Mosbacher got astern of Columbia as Shields maneuvered toward the starting line. Both boats were on the starboard tack (wind over the right side), and Shields was trapped. He could not come about onto the port tack to get to the line without violating Mosbacher's right of way under racing rules...